[ILUG] Eircom sued by RIAA.

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Justin Mason wrote:

> Some linux-relevant bits: it appears to be trivial to evade if both the
> client and server ends of the TCP connection are running Linux (or
> FreeBSD, or indeed any other platform with sufficiently powerful firewall
> filtering support.)

And to add to the blog links:

  http://blogs.sun.com/paulj/entry/tcp_rst_considered_dangerous_and

I'd be glad to see things rolled out actually, if it weren't for the 
fact that we consumers will be the ones who have to finance the 
stupid things, as it would spur research into psuedo-anonymous 
authentication..

This system isn't even that effective *today*, as BT clients already 
have options to encrypt all traffic. (Well: It'd require fairly 
massive amounts of state-keeping to monitor that == even more costs 
to the consumer).

regards,
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